technical program management leader

• Mission-Critical Delivery: Oversee development and sustainment of classified systems of systems supporting warfighter intelligence, operational planning, and strategic decision-making using Agile Execution methodologies and strategies to implement and enforce enterprise Agile practices, Program Increment Planning, CI/CD pipelines, and rapid prototyping methodologies across distributed teams.\n
• Customer Engagement & Strategy: Serve as the autonomous senior interface to government sponsors, shaping technical direction, resolving issues, and driving mission-aligned growth.\n
• Program Leadership: Develop and execute program with disciplined accountability of technical, schedule, and financial matters to maintain performance baselines and embolden customer confidence.\n
• Innovation & Prototyping: Drive rapid prototyping, IR&D initiatives, and technical fellowship-level solutioning to accelerate mission capability insertion and expand program growth opportunities.\n

Leidos is seeking a proven technical program management leader with deep experience leading \nlarge-scale mission software development, full-lifecycle modernization, and \ndistributed engineering organizations. The ideal candidate has directed \ncomplex software programs, overseen multi-discipline teams delivering secure, high-performance capabilities, and demonstrated authoritative leadership across architecture, integration, DevOps, cyber, and cloud environments. Candidates must bring hands-on credibility in software development and sustainment, not just program oversight, with a track record of delivering mission-critical systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.\n \n This role requires meaningful technical credibility, disciplined program leadership, and demonstrated success running large-scale, full-lifecycle software development and sustainment programs exceeding $20M/year. Consider that Mission System Modernization is a continually challenging requirement that demands modernization of legacy mission systems into secure cloud, hybrid, or containerized architectures, ensuring resilience, scalability, and future ready capability delivery.\n, * Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in software-intensive program leadership; or Master’s degree with 12+ years; or equivalent experience.\n

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain a polygraph once hired.\n
• Demonstrated leadership of large, geographically distributed engineering organizations delivering mission software across classified and unclassified environments. Distribution must be at least two or more physically/geographically separated locations. \n
• Proven success managing $20M+/year software development and sustainment portfolios.\n
• Deep experience with full-stack software development, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud, cyber, and enterprise data systems.\n
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills spanning technical, operational, and executive audiences.\n
• Experience supporting business development, technical solutioning, and major proposal efforts with hands on knowledge/development of BOEs, RFP/RFI response generation.\n, * Active TS/SCI with polygraph.\n
• Experience delivering mission-critical classified systems for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.\n
• Background in software architecture, cyber innovation, AI/ML integration, modeling/simulation, or enterprise modernization.\n
• Experience leading multi-discipline teams of 100+ personnel across diverse technical domains.\n
• Demonstrated ability to recover troubled programs, re-establish technical execution, and deliver under high-visibility conditions.\n
• Experience driving IR&D, rapid prototyping, and technical innovation pipelines aligned to mission needs.\n